Just now as I was driving home after delivering Meals on Wheels, I passed someone on our road driving an ATV with a raccoon on his head. I don’t mean one of those Davy Crockett coonskin caps. No, I’m talking a full size, real-looking raccoon, complete with head, body and tail. I’m supposing it was a taxidermy project because I couldn’t find anything online that looked remotely like this. (If anyone looked at the search history on my computer they’d really think I’d lost my mind.)
Once again I find myself feeling slightly out of step with the culture of this part of the country. Just like I couldn’t imagine seeing roadkill and thinking “gift for David”, I can’t imagine looking at a dead raccoon and thinking, “what a lovely summer hat that would make”.
Poor raccoon : (
Must’ve been a sight though. I always see weird stuff or really cool stuff and wish I had a camera on me. I never have a camera when I really need one.
Pretty disgusting. I’m with Donna. I feel sorry for the raccoon.
Kandy
I bet you were thinking “Did I just see a raccoon on a dude’s head?” When I lived in Sacramento years ago, I was driving with my children and their friends and there was a guy on the overpass that was “flashing” his privates to the cars below. Try explaining that to a car full of 6 yr olds! My oldest son is an adult now and he still laughs at that!
On the other hand, Capt. Dave Pierre Blackheart could become Davey Crockett. He’s already got half of the name ;-).
Oh, Caleb. Don’t you know that pirates are much cooler than the “king of the wild frontier”?
But he killed him a b’ar when he was only three!
We were recently in Nicaragua and I saw a man sitting in a restuarant with an iguana on his head. And it was real and alive. Of course, I didn’t have the camera with me.
Blessings from Costa Rica
You know, my husband has lots of family in Oklahoma – there is a huge chance that you just passed one of his cousins. You know, the kind that is married to their own cousin… AACK
Cheryl, if I see the guy again should I ask if he knows you? 😉
LOL Nah, I try to keep my distance. But, maybe next trip to OK, I will have my husband drop me off at your place and he can go visit his raccoon wearing cousins!
Sounds like a good plan, Cheryl. 🙂